Stocks held gains ahead of the closing bell, putting the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index on pace for its first back-to-back gains since mid-March. Michael Casey reports. Photo: Getty Images.

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... the the ... look at the Indices one of those that they bought ... the Dow Jones industrial average of about fifty nine points as eight samples that I can be Nasdaq about awful percent of that on the sign ... and the big stocks index the SB five hundred ... edging five points higher to discuss this and will we go my Casey ... of that has been for us thanks for being so good to great has a son ... who is so ... desperate us yes it's been a winning double on the U S data today but we get out of it at the right wheel with that with that ... equipment made much supported weekend ... the stunning numbers of elderly what earnings season ... Alcoa kind of this morning ... and ... it's often seen as a bellwether for the market would beat expectations and had a rather healthy bottom line is even revenue fell to fifty eight cents or one that put him on the spot ... so ... Alcoa's was the first to come out ... at any season and a move that would be that ... the people took that as a good sign apparently ... I'm eighty two cents of time on the show short term basis ... Alcoa tends to lead the market fairly well ... so what it does that with that with Alcoa with a market to some extent ... we're of course also the thinking a great deal at the moment about